by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Feel It Records continue their never ending hot streak with the ripper we’ve all been waiting for, LYSOL’s full length debut, Soup For My Family. Due out this Friday, July 30th, the Seattle punk band give us that “fuck it all” release we so desperately need from time to time (…most of the time). The album is raw and unfiltered, ripping with paint peeling riffs and furious rhythms that pound with a primitive garage punk intensity. LYSOL’s sound blends hardcore, punk, and garage into something that feels fun and destructive, discordant at times and generally fed up with the bullshit. There’s not a moment wasted as they set tone and chaos with avalanches of guitars that crash headfirst into their stomping rhythmic density.
It’s an album that works in single doses, like early singles “C-4” and “Can’t Win,” but it really comes to life in full, as one aural attack grooves into the next, from the barn burning boogie of “Drank My Pride” to the stampeding noise rock inflected “Glasgow Smile” which feels delightfully unhinged and off the rails. The guitars build and shred, with old school hardcore blending into the more acidic corners of garage punk, its loose fury always propelled by enormous riffs and chaotic tempos, highlighted by the frantic back-to-back combo of “Blessures Graves” and “Ego Death”. The band play like it’s a party at the end of the world and no yuppies are invited, this one is dragged through the gutter, for those who aren’t afraid to get dirty in the process.